Cleaning device.



PATENTED SEPT, 26, 1905.

' E. KRAHNSTOEVER.

CLEANING DEVICE Arrmomron n nnn 0110.23; 1903.

UNITED STATES- PATENT-T FFICE.

Iva-800,306.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 26, 1905.

Application filed December 23, 1203; Serial No. 186,383.

To aZZ whom it mag concern.-

Be it known that I, ERNST KRAHNSTOEVER, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State ofWisconsimhave invented certain new and useful Improvements in CleaningDevices;

and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof.

My invention has especial reference to devices for cleaning gloves; andit consists in certain peculiarities of construction and combination' ofparts, as will be fully set forth hereinafter in connection with theaccompanying drawings and subsequently claimed.

In the said drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal sectional viewof a tank or vat on the plane indicated by the line 1 1 in Fig. 2 andshowing my device in side elevation. Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectionalview on the plane indicated by the line 2 2 in Fig.3. Fig. 3 is avertical transverse sectional view on the plane indicated by the line 33 in Fig. 1.

Referring by numerals to the drawings, 1 indicates a tank or vat,preferably of. sheet metal and herein shown as provided with a closecover 2. Fitting snugly within and resting on the bottom of said vat isa wooden platform 3, to which is secured a central ver-' ticallongitudinal partition 4:, between which partition and one of the sidewalls of the vat is a bevel-ended flat support 5," carrying ahorizontally-disposed brush 6. 7

7 designates a horizontal shaft whose inner end is journaled in a box 8on the partition 4 and whose outer end projects through an opening inthe-vat-wall and through a stuff- I ing-box 9 and journal-box l0 andthere rewardly inclined end 17 and these plates and end plates beingpreferably of metal, although same may be made of wood. The plates 16have each a projecting socket 18 for the reception of the adjacent spoke1-3, to which it is adjustably secured by the set-screws 1919, so thatthe projection of said brushes may be varied as desired.

The operation of my device will be readily understood from the foregoingdescription of its construction,-taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings. The vat 1 is partly filled with gasolene,preferably to theline in dicated in Fig. 1, and then any suitable num-66 her of pairs of soiled kid gloves are put in the vat and the coverclosed and shaft 7 revolved. The end plates 1717 will act like paddlesagainst the gasolene and cause same to move rapidly around the partition4:, car- 5 rying the gloves with it, and over the flat brush 6, whilethe movable brushes 15 15 also I pass over the flat brush and thegloves, and in a short time the latter are thoroughly cleaned betweenthe opposed brush-faces. 7

Should there be any occasion to remove the device from the vat forrepair or otherwise, 1

the set-screws 20 may be loosened in the hub and the set-screws 21 inthe shaft-collars 22, and then the shaft-7 may be Withdrawn from the vatand the hub, with the brushes on the end of the spokes, lifted out, andthe platform 3 likewise lifted out, carrying the partition and flatbrush with it, and the parts named can be readily replaced when desired.

Having thus described my invention; what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, i's I 1. In a cleaning device, the combinationwith a vat, and a vertical partition extending 5 from'about the centertoward the opposed ends thereof; of a stationary flexible brush arrangedadjacent to the bottom of the vat between the partition and side Wallthereof; a revolving shaft journaled in said partition and 9 side Wall;and a flexible yielding soft brushing-surface carried by said shaft andsweeping over the said stationary brush, whereby articles on this lattermay be cleaned without being torn or injured.

. 2. In a cleaning device, they combination with a vat, and a verticalpartition extending from about the center toward the opposed endsthereof; of astationary brush secured adjaoent to the bottom of the vat;a revolving I00 shaft carrying a hub fast thereon; spokes radiating fromsaid hub; brushes secured to the outer ends of said spokes; and inclinedend v r V T v plates extending inwardly from the backs of EhNbl 5 saidlast-named brushes.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I the county of Milwaukee andState of \Viscon- $111, in the presence of two witnesses.

\Vitnosses:

H. G. UNDnnwoon,

have hereunto set my hand, at Milwaukee, in HUGO FAiiL.

